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US 8,149,136 B2Granted
Remotely configurable vehicular sign
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorJohn R. Feroldi
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Abstract
A configurable sign includes a mounting mechanism that connects the configurable sign to a vehicle, a display, a memory to store a plurality of instructions, and a processor to execute instructions in the memory. The processor executes instructions in the memory to receive configured sign information from one of a user device or a server, configure one of text, graphics, video, or audio, associated with the display, based on the configured sign information, and display, via the display, the configured text, graphics, video, or audio.
Claims22
A computing device-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving sign configuration information from a user device;
- receiving, from other sources, additional sign configuration information;
- creating configured sign information based on the sign configuration information and the additional sign configuration information;
- providing the configured sign information to a sign affixed to a vehicle, where the sign displays the configured sign information;
- and
- where the sign configuration information comprises audio information, and the method further comprises:
- creating the configured sign information based on the audio information;
- and
- providing the configured sign information based on the audio information to a speaker associated with the sign, where the speaker generates the audio information.
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A computing device-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving sign configuration information;
- receiving geography-based sign configuration information;
- and
- creating a first set of sign configuration information and a second set of sign configuration information based on the sign configuration information and the geography-based sign configuration information, where the first set of sign configuration information is affixed to one or more first vehicles and the second set of sign configuration information is affixed to one or more second vehicles.
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A configurable sign, comprising:
- a mechanism that connects the configurable sign to a vehicle;
- a display;
- a memory to store a plurality of instructions;
- a processor to execute instructions in the memory to:
- receive configured sign information from one of a user device or a server,
- receive additional sign configuration information from one or more other sources;
- configure at least one of text, graphics, or video, associated with the display, based on the configured sign information and the additional sign configuration information, and
- display, via the display, the configured text, graphics, or video;
- and
- a speaker;
- where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to configure audio, associated with the speaker, based on the configured sign information, and provide, via the speaker, the configured audio.
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A method implemented by a configurable vehicular sign, the method comprising:
- receiving configured sign information from one of a user device or a server that is remotely located from the configurable vehicular sign, said user device or said server receiving geography-based sign configuration information upon which said configured sign information is based;
- displaying, via a display associated with the configurable vehicular sign, at least one of textual information, graphical information, or video information associated with the configured sign information;
- and
- generating, via a speaker associated with the configurable vehicular sign, audio information associated with the configured sign information.
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A configurable sign, comprising:
- a mechanism that connects the configurable sign to a vehicle;
- a display;
- a memory to store a plurality of instructions;
- a processor to execute instructions in the memory to:
- receive configured sign information from one of a user device or a server and receive additional sign configuration information from one or more other sources;
- configure at least one of text, graphics, or video, associated with the display, based on the configured sign information and the additional sign configuration information;
- and
- display, via the display, the configured text, graphics, or video;
- said configurable sign further comprising at least one of:
- a thermometer that senses an interior temperature of the vehicle and causes the configurable sign to generate an alarm when the interior temperature of the vehicle exceeds a temperature threshold;
- a carbon dioxide detector that senses carbon dioxide levels within the vehicle and causes the configurable sign to generate an alarm when the carbon dioxide levels within the vehicle exceed a carbon dioxide threshold;
- or
- a carbon monoxide detector that senses carbon monoxide levels within the vehicle and causes the configurable sign to generate an alarm when the carbon monoxide levels within the vehicle exceed a carbon monoxide threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.